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What It Costs to Run Let's Encrypt

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Re: What It Costs to Run Let's Encrypt

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I'm quite surprised - $2.06 on staffing seemed steep, so obviously read on as I was thinking that there must be a lot of employees. But 8? OK, I'm just a teacher, and I earn around £30k a year... not the kind of figures I've seen bandied about on here for graduate programmers who seem to be pulling in 8-10 times that for their first job... So I'd be interested to see a breakdown of the payroll (which I doubt would happen) - an average of $250k seem normal to others on here?

Re: What It Costs to Run Let's Encrypt

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$2.06M for eight employees seems very steep

I'd like to see it broken down further by staff, it would be interesting to see the responsibilities of the "Executive Director" and weigh up the salary difference between that and the median salary of the rest of the team.

Re: What It Costs to Run Let's Encrypt

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$2.06M for eight employees seems very steep

250k per employee all-in (benefits, etc) doesn't seem that outrageous being in SF. Plus I'm guessing they're all high caliber employees given the scale of what they set out to do and what they've accomplished with a relatively small team.
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